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2010-12-31 Home Front: WoT
Julian Assange Threatens To Name Arab Leaders With CIA Ties
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Posted by tipper 2010-12-31 05:35|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 He's just given [fill here] an extra good reason to whack him.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-12-31 05:49||   2010-12-31 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Arab leaders with CIA ties? That would probably include all of them. The CIA have long been quick with a hand out, understanding that "La Mordida" is humanities lubricant.

"El dinero hace que el mundo circunda."
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-12-31 07:24||   2010-12-31 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't he threaten to release a crapload of documents earlier this month if the Brits arrested him on the Swedish warrants? I distinctly remember hearing that he had all kinds of stuff on major corporations back then.

IIRC, nothing was released then. Or after he got bailed out so he could chase British chix like Benny Hill around some aristocrat's estate to the tune of Enrique Iglesias' latest audio turd, for that matter.

I'm thinking a certain poster's fave albino rat-faced crush freedom fighter is talking smack again.
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2010-12-31 08:57||   2010-12-31 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I say we whack him and find out if he is lying.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-12-31 09:37||   2010-12-31 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 This flit is quickly becoming what he fears the most.
Old news...
Posted by tu3031 2010-12-31 10:14||   2010-12-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, gee whiz, that would be - all of 'em?
Posted by mojo 2010-12-31 11:48||   2010-12-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe we could pay Putin to whack him.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2010-12-31 12:04||   2010-12-31 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm...Let's review Assange's current situation:

(1) Currently hanging out in the UK, which has...

(2) A rather large population of Arabs and similar ethnics, at least some of whom can be presumed to be...

(3) Agents working for the governments of their home countries. Therefore, a certain rat-faced albino better start worrying about...

(4) Being given a one-lesson course in swimming at the bottom of Loch Ness.
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-12-31 12:42||   2010-12-31 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Power certainly went to his head quickly, didn't it? He expects to rule the world next, eh?
Posted by gromky 2010-12-31 12:55||   2010-12-31 12:55|| Front Page Top

#10 If he has it, it is already released or should be treated as such.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-12-31 12:56||   2010-12-31 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 1) He believes exposing secrets is good.

and

2) The secrets will be exposed if he is killed.

therefore:

He believes that being murdered would be a GOOD thing.

Assange == Martyr???
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-12-31 13:32||   2010-12-31 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 The leaks are destroying democracies and reinforcing tyrants (c.f. Zimbabwe). Look for even more Arab radicals and Islamic radical fundamentalists (or else the military in prevention of such) to topple these people.

Assange and those who support him as a "paragon of peace" are idiots, who should be demolished before they cause even more deaths.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-12-31 14:28||   2010-12-31 14:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh no! We might have to start addressing the terrorist problem directly!
Posted by gorb 2010-12-31 14:33||   2010-12-31 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Julian Assange Threatens To Name Arab Leaders With CIA Ties

He didn't get any of that information off of SIPRNET from his little bum buggering Army buddy. Call me a "conspiracy theorist" but I believe this fellow may have other, well placed sources.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-31 14:37||   2010-12-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#15 @Besoeker - First off he alos apparently had access to JWICS (google it, c.f. Wikipedia), not just SIPR. SO there was Top Secret access for the littke futt-bucking traitor.

I usually do dismiss that sort of reasoning as "conspiracy theory". But in this case, it may not be. Think about "Sources and Methods"; those things (especially sensitive HUMINT sources) are usually far more protected than the intelligence they produce. It is common intelligence doctrine of any department or nation, to scrub intelligence first of sources and methods before being released. This is even in the highest classifications and across compartmented access areas. It goes back to WW2 and the "Ultra" decrypts against Enigma, and other similar things (Japanese naval codes as well).

I would say a politically motivated CIA or State Department stooge could have leaked such things. Its not beyond reason, especially when given the history of the sieve-like quality of those places during the Bush administration, when it came to politically charged and damaging leaks.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-12-31 15:57||   2010-12-31 15:57|| Front Page Top

#16 I was not aware he had 'high-side' access. That really does take it to a new level.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-12-31 17:52||   2010-12-31 17:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Is anybody thinking of this as a bug? Seems like a feature to me.
Posted by Richard Aubrey  2010-12-31 21:27||   2010-12-31 21:27|| Front Page Top

#18 And he could be bluffing.

And I'll bet the Arab leaders with the CIA ties would outnumber those who don't.

And I'll bet those who don't have CIA ties the world would be better off without.
Posted by gorb 2010-12-31 22:50||   2010-12-31 22:50|| Front Page Top

#19 why not flood the zone saying Hezbollah , Talib, ISI, et al honchos have been on our payroll ahead of time. Use it to get rid of our headache assholes...
Posted by Frank G 2010-12-31 23:31||   2010-12-31 23:31|| Front Page Top

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